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1. The prophet Nostradumbass says:

   January 15, 2013 at 7:02 pm

   Why am I not shocked that it was a baseball player?

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   • Vance Maverick says:

     January 15, 2013 at 8:20 pm

     @OldHoss himself has commented, wearily.

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     • Erik Loomis says:

       January 15, 2013 at 8:34 pm

       His weariness could have just been a bit too much laudnaum tonight.

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       • rea says:

         January 15, 2013 at 10:27 pm

         He had a 60-12 year. Of cocurse he was weary.

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         • UberMitch says:

           January 15, 2013 at 10:56 pm

           pure awesome-sauce, the standardize bio-info block on Radbourn’s Baseball-Reference page includes a link to the Twitter feed

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   • Uncle Ebeneezer says:

     January 15, 2013 at 9:13 pm

     And fittingly, from Boston!

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     • rea says:

       January 15, 2013 at 10:28 pm

       Boston NL, though–not a Red Sox, but a proto-Brave

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2. sparks says:

   January 15, 2013 at 7:11 pm

   In the canonically correct upward position, too! I am assuming this wasn’t photoshopped.

   They seem to be somewhat rare in early cinema. I’ve seen few.

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3. Vance Maverick says:

   January 15, 2013 at 7:32 pm

   This is great. Strangely, when I google “old hoss radbourn”, the first result is

   42 (1854-1897)
   Charles Radbourn, Age at death

   “elvis presley” doesn’t do the same.

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   • UserGoogol says:

     January 15, 2013 at 7:41 pm

     No, but “old Elvis Presley” does. It looks like the phrasing “old ” automatically looks up the age (or age at death) of people.

     Also, I guess that means Old Hoss didn’t live to be especially old. Apparently he died of syphilis.

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     • UserGoogol says:

       January 15, 2013 at 7:41 pm

       This software eats angle brackets, I meant “old [name of person]“

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       • Vance Maverick says:

         January 15, 2013 at 7:43 pm

         Good detective work, o aptly-named fellow commenter. “Young John Keats” doesn’t work the same.

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       • NonyNony says:

         January 16, 2013 at 11:52 am

         You can also use “[name of person] age”. Works for living people too.

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4. prufrock says:

   January 15, 2013 at 7:36 pm

   That pic is in the companion book to Ken Burn’s Baseball. No Photoshop.

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   • sparks says:

     January 15, 2013 at 8:01 pm

     I assumed so, but nowadays where they even have how-to You Tube videos of things which are physically impossible to do, one can’t be too careful.

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5. Leeds man says:

   January 15, 2013 at 8:23 pm

   Boston Beaneaters. You’d think a sport like baseball would eschew the obvious, and embrace whimsy. Boston Banshees would at least combine both.

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   • rea says:

     January 15, 2013 at 8:50 pm

     And somehow, “Atlanta Beaneaters” just doesn’t cut it–they’d rather call themselves the “Racist Logos” or some such name nowdays . . .

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   • BigHank53 says:

     January 16, 2013 at 8:33 am

     I know I posted this before, but it was down at the bottom of one of the Wayne LaPierre threads.
     
     History/baseball mash-up t-shirts.

     I’ve no connection; it just seems like this is pretty much their target audience.

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